CC aka CoCo, Just curious, when were you at Bethel?
Also, why do you sometimes sign "CC" and other times "CoCo"?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Posts by 00DAD
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92The Faithful and Discreet Slave - A JW Myth
by 00DAD inprobably this topic has been dealt with before, but i'm relatively new here, so perhaps y'all will be willing to indulge me in my pursuit for clarity.
regarding the anointed, the gb recently said this: .
"we thus have no way of knowing the exact number of anointed ones on earth; nor do we need to know.
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The Faithful and Discreet Slave - A JW Myth
by 00DAD inprobably this topic has been dealt with before, but i'm relatively new here, so perhaps y'all will be willing to indulge me in my pursuit for clarity.
regarding the anointed, the gb recently said this: .
"we thus have no way of knowing the exact number of anointed ones on earth; nor do we need to know.
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Ding: "WT has said that there is no need for the GB to know who they are ..."
Look at the first post on the first page!
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The Faithful and Discreet Slave - A JW Myth
by 00DAD inprobably this topic has been dealt with before, but i'm relatively new here, so perhaps y'all will be willing to indulge me in my pursuit for clarity.
regarding the anointed, the gb recently said this: .
"we thus have no way of knowing the exact number of anointed ones on earth; nor do we need to know.
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The Faithful and Discreet Slave - A JW Myth
by 00DAD inprobably this topic has been dealt with before, but i'm relatively new here, so perhaps y'all will be willing to indulge me in my pursuit for clarity.
regarding the anointed, the gb recently said this: .
"we thus have no way of knowing the exact number of anointed ones on earth; nor do we need to know.
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CC: I don't know how to respond. Maybe they took Sarah's contribution into consideration, maybe not.
In the '80s the society published an Awake! mis-stating that the raccoon was the largest rodent in the world. I wrote in correcting them that it was actually the capybara.
I never got a reply, but I did see a correction in the back of the Awake! months later. The correction was attributed to someone else from another country. Maybe more than one person wrote in. Who knows.
I remember thinking at the time how could "God's Organization" not even know their rodents ... but then again, I thought, "They're human and imperfect. Besides this is a RELIGIOUS organization, not a zoological one!" So they damn sure better get their spiritual facts straight!!!
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The Faithful and Discreet Slave - A JW Myth
by 00DAD inprobably this topic has been dealt with before, but i'm relatively new here, so perhaps y'all will be willing to indulge me in my pursuit for clarity.
regarding the anointed, the gb recently said this: .
"we thus have no way of knowing the exact number of anointed ones on earth; nor do we need to know.
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Cedars, yeah I always did have a problem with that one too. Some snot nosed boy gets more respect than an older sister that's going to rule in heaven because of the GB's twisted interpretations! Worse, if he's an MS (and probably only shaves once a week) she has to be submissive to him as he stumbles through conducting a meeting for field service.
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The Faithful and Discreet Slave - A JW Myth
by 00DAD inprobably this topic has been dealt with before, but i'm relatively new here, so perhaps y'all will be willing to indulge me in my pursuit for clarity.
regarding the anointed, the gb recently said this: .
"we thus have no way of knowing the exact number of anointed ones on earth; nor do we need to know.
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Cedars: interesting cite. I find the GB's terse answer to the question enlightening:
Q: Are all these anointed ones throughout the earth part of a global network that is somehow involved in revealing new spiritual truths?
A: No. - w09 6/15
Well there we have it! They admit it. The anointed are NOT part of the revealing of spiritual truths. Hard to believe, but there it is in proverbial B&W.
But they then continue with their typical WT-esque theosophical, obfuscational gymnastics, "Although as a composite body the slave class is responsible for feeding the spiritual household, not all individuals of the slave class have the same responsibilities or work assignments."
OK then the "composite body' IS after all responsible for this all important spiritual feeding. How many are actually involved? What are the numbers?
Let's reason on this. Last year there were 7,224,930 Average Publishers, 11,202 Memorial Partakers and 7 members of the Governing Body. (I know, I know: some of the "partakers" are "mentally unbalanced". Let's not go there).
That means there is:
- 645 Publisher for every Partakers,
- 1,600 Partaker for every GB Member, and
- 1,032,133 Publishers for every GB Member
You have a "composite body" consisting of 11,202 "anointed of Jehovah", but only 7 of them in fact have any real input into the actual running of things, the "feeding". Those 7 guys do ALL the heavy lifting!!!
You just gotta' love the GB's, "not all individuals of the slave class have the same responsibilities or work assignments." Apparently not. That is the understatement of the century. In fact, the other 11,195 are simply not needed or consulted in any way, shape or form. The 7 GB super-men don't even know who or where they are. They don't need to. Why would they? After all, each of them is only responsible for the spiritual welfare of a million or so souls bought with the blood of Christ. It's not like it's a big deal or anything like that. They could probably any one of them do it blindfolded, standing on one leg with the other arm tied behind their back while suffering from a bad head cold.
I think it's perfectly reasonable that 7 people could feed 7 million. Who would need any extra help with that?
Let's review: It's a "composite body" of about eleven thousand (give or take) but only seven of them really do any of the work. So what was the point of Jesus illustration/parable/prophecy again?
Seriously!
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The Faithful and Discreet Slave - A JW Myth
by 00DAD inprobably this topic has been dealt with before, but i'm relatively new here, so perhaps y'all will be willing to indulge me in my pursuit for clarity.
regarding the anointed, the gb recently said this: .
"we thus have no way of knowing the exact number of anointed ones on earth; nor do we need to know.
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TimothyT: Any response I would make to your question, "why do the GB not care about keeping track of these annointed ones if they are so important?" would of course be speculation. (I'm not a mind reader ... lol).
But I think that fact that the GB DO NOT even attempt to keep track of the FDS/Anointed Ones is evidence that they are NOT in fact important to them.
It's really a form of a spiritual "shell game" ... where are the anointed running things? Can you guess? It's the FDS! Where are they? Why all over the world of course?
Again, I know it's all BS from the GB, I was just wondering if they ever even TRIED to explain how this thing is supposed to work. Interesting that apparently they don't even think it's important enough or possible to try to come up with a WT brand "plausible" explanation.
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The Faithful and Discreet Slave - A JW Myth
by 00DAD inprobably this topic has been dealt with before, but i'm relatively new here, so perhaps y'all will be willing to indulge me in my pursuit for clarity.
regarding the anointed, the gb recently said this: .
"we thus have no way of knowing the exact number of anointed ones on earth; nor do we need to know.
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TimothyT - the disconnect here is glaring. Why oh why oh glorious GB members do you want to know about the 15 minutes Sister Oldenweary put in last month any yet you don't feel the need to keep track of the anointed, the ones that supposedly are the remaining ones of the Bride of Christ, the all important, Faithful and Discreet Slave that provide poor old Sister Oldenweary with her spiritual food?
There's something rotten in Brooklyn!
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PART 2 - PESTILENCE - How The Watchtower Distorts Facts and Builds Fear
by KingDavidwasframed inwt quotes are taken from their own website so as not to be out of context as the jdub apologists will cry out.
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20060915/article_02.htm.
watchtower writes there will be .
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Your most welcome, KDwF
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Yeah, I love it too. I'm a high school music teacher. The whole suite is a bit too challenging for my concert band, but we're doing a short "pep band" arrangement of Mars featuring that rhythm and the disjointed, somewhat atonal melody. Very cool!
It's so menacing. Too bad our football team isn't!!! ... hahaha